We rambled about everything under the sun this week, from Roman history to Kurosawa to multiple Buffetts, Vinny's home flour-milling, Brad's new (old) CRT, Alex's love of yacht rock, and a bunch of other stuff!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:08) We are (not) entering our Roman history era
(00:05:00) Is WWII more or less cliched than Roman history on the dudes-being-into scale?
(00:06:46) Vinny's milling his own flour
(00:11:31) Our weekly bit...
2025-03-18 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Ahhh, the French cinema! It's known for its excellence, and on this week's Watchcast that proves undeniably true as we check out Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's science fantasy classic, The City of Lost Children.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 129: The City of Lost Children (1995)
(00:00:39) - Intro.
(00:02:44) - We head to France for o...
2025-03-17 22:57:57 +0000 UTC
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It’s March and here in New Jersey we’re in our weather transition. My heating/electric bill has been through the roof the last few months, so I’ll be curious to see if things come down or if I’m just running too many dang computers in the house (and garage). We also have to make sure the yard, house, and garage are ready for whatever rain situation is coming this year. Seems like the last couple of years have just been buckets of water dropping out of the sky, which floods everything,...
2025-03-17 18:52:58 +0000 UTC
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Questions that popped up on this month's Q&A address all sorts of topics, like what we'd do if we had to move on from Discord, technology and media we came to way late, buying big-ticket items at the flea market, the great divide between Mega Man X and non-, and hiding a datacenter in a storage facility.
2025-03-13 21:21:17 +0000 UTC
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There might be an Xbox handheld launching this year (?!), plus the actual next Xbox in 2027, and we get together to talk all about that, along with the fairly unhinged new Death Stranding 2 trailer, WWE 2K25, Deliver at All Costs, returning to PUBG in 2025, top-tier comedy sketches, lighting your sardines on fire, and a bunch of other stuff.
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2025-03-12 23:42:32 +0000 UTC
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Brad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:34) Abolish daylight savings time please
(00:09:13) Let's all switch to Coordinated Universal Time
(00:10:31) Great Sunday at the ...
2025-03-11 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Brad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:34) Abolish daylight savings time please
(00:09:13) Let's all switch to Coordinated Universal Time
(00:10:31) Great Sunday at the electr...
2025-03-11 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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It's time to take a trip back in time to the crime-scorched hellscape of NYC circa 1979 in Walter Hill's The Warriors! Join us as we bop from the Bronx to Coney Island, taking on the many gangs of clowns and theater kids that run these New York City streets.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 128: The Warriors (1979)
(00:00:55) - Intro.
(00:04:08) - T...
2025-03-10 22:39:36 +0000 UTC
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It certainly is March and though the time here in the States has gotten all funky with Daylight Saving Time it’s always the BEST time to be hanging out with Nextlander. This Monday marks the first episode of Mike and Vinny Destroy the World. That’s where Mike Mahardy is teaching me how to play Total War: Warhammer III and we’ve got two campaigns going. The “good” campaign is over on Fire Escape while the ‘evil” campaign is happening right here at Nextlander! Go check it out on t...
2025-03-10 18:44:24 +0000 UTC
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Mike Mahardy and Vinny choose their engines of Chaos as they begin their journey through Total War: Warhammer III!
Episodes will post here every other week.
NOTE: You can find our "Good" campaign over at the Fire Escape Patreon!
2025-03-10 14:56:01 +0000 UTC
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The mythical End of Fiscal is upon us once again, so there are a bazillion end-of-quarter releases to sift through this month, but among them we encounter a wide range of notable March games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, Cataclismo, Split Fiction, the Suikoden remasters, WWE 2K25, Wanderstop, Hitman in VR, new Rain World DLC, and plenty more.
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:02:30) 33 Immortals (Early Access) | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Ma...
2025-03-06 22:41:11 +0000 UTC
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The mythical End of Fiscal is upon us once again, so there are a bazillion end-of-quarter releases to sift through this month, but among them we encounter a wide range of notable March games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, Cataclismo, Split Fiction, the Suikoden remasters, WWE 2K25, Wanderstop, Hitman in VR, new Rain World DLC, and plenty more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:06) Intro
(00:02:30) 33 Immortals (Early Access) | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Ma...
2025-03-06 22:40:54 +0000 UTC
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While we spend a good part of this week's show grappling with the resurrection of the Acclaim name, we also find time to discuss Split Fiction, Knights in Tight Spaces, Gears of War on PS5, buying a (cheap) record player, the whereabouts of Bam Margera, a big week for video game source code, and the Sonic Unleashed PC port with big implications for Xbox 360 game preservation.
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2025-03-06 01:00:50 +0000 UTC
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This week's ramble wends its way through topics as broad as managing anger in trying times and bringing back common courtesy, building your own music library, the greatness of Sly and the Family Stone, mushrooms (you know the ones), a brain dump of our Realis session with Austin Walker, and the number of unaccounted-for Oscar statues floating around out there.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:36) When hitting stuff isn't enough anymore
(00:02:49) Net...
2025-03-04 19:41:31 +0000 UTC
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This week's ramble wends its way through topics as broad as managing anger in trying times and bringing back common courtesy, building your own music library, the greatness of Sly and the Family Stone, mushrooms (you know the ones), a brain dump of our Realis session with Austin Walker, and the number of unaccounted-for Oscar statues floating around out there.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:36) When hitting stuff isn't enough anymore
(00:02:49) Net...
2025-03-04 19:41:22 +0000 UTC
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We're kicking off our month of Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities with Terry Gilliam's classic satirical nightmare, Brazil! Join us as we pick apart this strange world of failing systems and bureaucratic ass-covering that holds absolutely no similarity to the real world in which we live. Heh. Heh.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985)
(00:00:11) -...
2025-03-04 00:10:41 +0000 UTC
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Here we are in March, and I talk about it on the Ramblecast this week, but it seems more important than ever to have spaces and activities that allow you to find a bit of inner peace. I’ve never been great at meditation, and exercise works but it’s, you know, still exercise. What I usually need to do is build, construct, or make something to quiet some of the noise in my head. That’s been tough with a lot of my tools, paints, etc, packed up while our family tries to (someday) begin ...
2025-03-03 20:14:01 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Nextlanders! Once again I am here to tell you what we've got cooking for the Watchcast in the coming month, and this March we're ticking off another category that's been floating around on our big doc for ages: Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities! To be clear, this is about as loose a category theme as we've done in a while. Yes, all these movies feature varying degrees of dystopias, but some are more like "Here's New York City circa 1979 but it's overrun with clown gangs" versus some of th...
2025-02-28 21:11:29 +0000 UTC
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Dan Ryckert and Abby Russell are back to talk about phone etiquette during movies and meals, healthy eating and digestion, and woodpeckers in the walls.
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:50) Dan's furnace and weather
(00:04:11) Heated jackets and heated beds?
(00:07:18) AND no more static electricity but intentional shocks?
(00:14:09) Let's talk about movies and checking phones
(00:19:58) I'm not your content!
(00:20:54) Phones at meals allowab...
2025-02-28 14:23:33 +0000 UTC
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This week we attempt to get back to the positive end of the yo-yo cycle by playing Monster Hunter Wilds, LAD: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, more Avowed, and some Steam Next Fest demos, plus the shocking closure of Monolith, some new Fable footage, Microsoft's games AI model, and your emails!
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2025-02-27 01:09:20 +0000 UTC
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We're almost there: the end of February. It's time to combine all our forces to vanquish this cold, grey mess of a month, and to do that, we'll need you to choose what we're going to stream this Friday the 28th (dawn of the final day!) by looking over the options below and then casting your vote. Help us ring in March with something resembling joy and optimism, and as always, thanks for supporting us for anoth...
2025-02-25 20:21:16 +0000 UTC
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Topics rambled about this week include the algorithms eating everyone's brains, Severance, that new "budget" iPhone, Microsoft's mysterious new phase of matter, famous people going off the deep end, and Alex's very large, one-year-old cat.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:03:21) The Technology Connections connection
(00:08:13) The Final Fantasy X Ending Reactions Industrial Complex
(00:14:01) Indie Web indexes like indieblog.page
(00:16:08) Our ph...
2025-02-25 20:16:42 +0000 UTC
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Topics rambled about this week include the algorithms eating everyone's brains, Severance, that new "budget" iPhone, Microsoft's mysterious new phase of matter, famous people going off the deep end, and Alex's very large, one-year-old cat.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:03:21) The Technology Connections connection
(00:08:13) The Final Fantasy X Ending Reactions Industrial Complex
(00:14:01) Indie Web indexes like indieblog.page
(00:16:08) Our ph...
2025-02-25 19:00:10 +0000 UTC
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We're closing out February with our second Best Picture winner in a row, this time jetting off to South Korea for Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. How does it hold up a few years removed from its hype? Very well, it turns out!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 126: Parasite (2019)
(00:00:24) - Intro.
(00:01:28) - Our film this week is Bong Joon-ho's Paras...
2025-02-24 23:42:28 +0000 UTC
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I hope everybody enjoyed last Friday’s Realis stream with Austin as much as I did! If you haven’t seen it you should definitely go seek out the archive. This week, I’m excited to jump back into Void Crew with Brad and Will on Monday. If you’re catching it live, I’ve got an idea to try and make the “proximity chat” stuff work better for the audience, so you can give me a thumbs up or down. I’ve got it primed so we can ditch it mid-game if it’s not working out as well. On Tues...
2025-02-24 19:45:09 +0000 UTC
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The Discord Q&A has come again, and this month we tackle questions about bringing back the old Internet, what's up with that IO James Bond game, digging around in the Video Game History Foundation's archive, and the considerable value of having a prehensile tail.
2025-02-20 22:46:11 +0000 UTC
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This week we're wowed by Avowed (sorry), and also playing Void Crew, Keep Driving, and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. In the news, shocking Marvel Rivals layoffs, a State of Play impressions roundup, Grand Theft Auto Online's user-generated future, and Everwild still exists. Also there might be an asteroid on the way? Tune in and hear all about it!
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2025-02-20 01:43:13 +0000 UTC
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In a shocking turn of events, Brad commandeers control of this podcast and directs the rambling this week toward the mess of New York City politics, the lurking danger of Windows 11 24H2, Wizards of the Coast's ability to constantly trip over itself, our upcoming session with Austin Walker playing his new tabletop game, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:50) People.
(00:04:04) Eric Adams Appreciation Week
(00:10:31) Ask us anything about l...
2025-02-18 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In a shocking turn of events, Brad commandeers control of this podcast and directs the rambling this week toward the mess of New York City politics, the lurking danger of Windows 11 24H2, Wizards of the Coast's ability to constantly trip over itself, our upcoming session with Austin Walker playing his new tabletop game, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:50) People.
(00:04:04) Eric Adams Appreciation Week
(00:10:31) Ask us anything about l...
2025-02-18 19:00:12 +0000 UTC
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This week on the Watchcast The Sting is the thing! Join us as we time warp all the way back to the depressed '30s and delight in the con-artistry of certified grifter hunks Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 125: The Sting (1973)
(00:00:58) - Intro.
(00:03:50) - Our delightful romp of a movie this week: The Sting!
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2025-02-17 23:43:25 +0000 UTC
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